Uploading a cover photo to a facebook event on creation using the facebook event API

Question

Using the events API I have the following code to post my event with an event photo

  $facebook = new Facebook(array(
      "appId"      => "XXX",
      "secret"     => "XXX",
      "cookie"     => false,
      "fileUpload" => true
  ));

  $data = array("name"=>$eventTitle,
                "start_time"=>$startTime,
                "description"=>$description,
                "privacy_type"=>$privacyType,
                 basename($fileName) => '@'.$fileName
  );

  $result = $facebook->api("/me/events","post",$data);

I'm interested in uploading a cover photo and I haven't found a clear way to do so with the PHP sdk. I've tried "source" => '@'.$coverPhoto, "cover" => '@'.$coverPhoto, "cover_url" => '@'.$coverPhoto and:

  $data = array("name"=>$eventTitle,
                "start_time"=>$startTime,
                "description"=>$description,
                "privacy_type"=>$privacyType,
                 basename($fileName) => '@'.$fileName,
                 "cover" => array(
                    "source" => '@'.$coverPhoto
                 )
  );

But I can't seem to find the right way to push in a cover photo. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you can't do it as of now.

There are two event related endpoints in Graph API: /{event-id} and /{user-id}/events and according to the Graph API documentation, none of them provide a support to upload the Event cover picture. Also, the documentation does not mention anything about support to upload the event photo (which, I assume, you were successfully able to do with your code).

However, based on the official Graph API documentation and my knowledge of Graph API, it's currently not possible to do that.

Answer 2

The method described in the official documentation to upload a cover photo of an event don't work as of now. I've reported this as a bug. You can subscribe to this bug to get any updates regarding the same.

The only way to do this (as of now)-

Firstly, you cant do this upload cover pic while creating an event. You first have to create an event, as a result you'll get the event_id. Use this event_id, to make a call:

\POST /{event-id} with param: cover_url

Code:

$param = array(
    'cover_url' => '{image-link}'
);

$facebook->api('/{event-id}', 'POST', $param);